Geier (freighter)
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 United Kingdom
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| Name: | Saint Théodore |
| Owner: | Brit. & Foreign. S.S. Co. |
| Port of registry: | Liverpool |
| Builder: | W. Hamilton & Co., Glasgow |
| Laid down: | 1913 |
| Launched: | 25 April 1913 |
| Fate: | taken by SMS Möwe and scuttled on 14 February 1917 |
 German Empire
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| Name: | German: Geier |
| Namesake: | Vulture |
| Acquired: | 12 December 1916 (taken as prize) |
| Commissioned: | 28 December 1916 |
| Fate: | scuttled on 14 February 1917 |
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| Tonnage: | 4,992 gross register tons (GRT) |
| Displacement: | 9,700 long tons (9,856 t) |
| Length: | 127.2 m (417 ft 4 in) |
| Beam: | 15.85 m (52 ft 0 in) |
| Height: | 8.25 m (27 ft 1 in) |
| Draught: | 6.4 m (21 ft) |
| Decks: | 2 |
| Propulsion: | 1,800 ihp (1,300 kW) steam engine |
| Speed: | 12.6 knots (23.3 km/h; 14.5 mph) |
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Geier was a British cargo ship named Saint Théodore, that was captured by the German commerce raider Möwe in the North Atlantic at 39°30′N 17°30′W / 39.500°N 17.500°W on 12 December 1916. First put into Imperial German Navy service as an auxiliary ship on 14 December 1916, Geier was commissioned as an auxiliary cruiser (German: Hilfskreuzer) on 28 December and operated in the South Atlantic until 14 February 1917, when she was scuttled near Ilha da Trindade.[1]
Coordinates: 21°01′S 31°49′W / 21.017°S 31.817°W
References
- ↑ Geier (Hilfskreuzer) at german-navy.de.
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